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Laguna’s Mayor Battles Bone Cancer
Kelly Boyd, right, with new Marine Room’s new owner, Chris Keller. Photo by Jody Tiongco Mayor Kelly Boyd stunned the City Council audience by announcing that he is battling multiple myeloma, a form...
View ArticleNew Rooftop Venue Approved
In other business Tuesday night, the City Council approved the addition of a rooftop deck at Mozambique restaurant, subject to proposed design changes. In January, local resident Gary Hollon...
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Protesting a ‘Chainsaw Massacre’
Surprised and alarmed by the removal of 10 large trees last week in the downtown area, residents expressed their anguish at Tuesday’s City Council meeting. “Please stop the chainsaw massacre of the...
View ArticleBenefits Broker Must Fight for Bids
Laguna Beach’s City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to temporarily renew a contract with the city’s current medical benefits broker, bowing partly to earlier protests by unions representing police...
View ArticleVillage Entrance Moves Ahead, Finally
After years of talks and studies, Laguna Beach’s City Council voted 3-2 on Tuesday to proceed with a $42 million village entrance park and parking structure, partly financed by an estimated $29...
View ArticleHard Choices
Editor, I, like several others, worked on planning a village entrance long ago. At that time it started out primarily to provide parking and reduce downtown congestion caused by cars circulating...
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Mayor’s Cancer Is in Remission
Kelly Boyd, left, in December, shortly before he announced he was undergoing cancer treatment. “I am in remission,” Mayor Kelly Boyd proclaimed Tuesday, receiving rousing applause from the crowd of 60...
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Boyd Weds Same-Sex Couple
The same-sex wedding ceremony was the first officiated by Mayor Kelly Boyd. Photo by Adrienne Helitzer Laguna Beach’s Mayor Kelly Boyd, who took wedding vows himself three times, for the first time...
View ArticleEffort Surfaces to Reverse Entrance Vote
A proposed referendum to allow Laguna Beach residents to vote on the controversial $43 million downtown village entrance project has missed the election code deadline, according to the city attorney....
View ArticleFormal Review Begins for New View Rules
After months of hearings, a draft of proposed new rules to resolve view disputes – a process raising fractious questions over community aesthetics as well as high-price home values – was submitted...
View ArticleCurbing Cell Tower Growth
Laguna Beach is trying to flex some muscle by standing up to AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and other companies that covet bigger transmission towers to satisfy demands of local cell customers. Last year,...
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Art Seen 11/8/13
Richard Macdonald working on the sculpture, “Heroic.” Dawson Cole Gallery Marks 25 Years Dawson Cole Fine Art hosts two receptions this weekend for a retrospective exhibit of Richard Macdonald’s...
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American Legion Hosts Veterans Day Celebration
Veterans Day has been celebrated on Nov. 11 since it was first established to celebrate the end of WWI. The Laguna Beach Police Color Guard posted the colors to start off the Veterans Day celebration...
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View Ordinance Proves a Big Disappointment
By Steve Caporaso and Marianne Blume Steve Caporosa Over a year ago, then Mayor Kelly Boyd “raised a passionate plea to improve the city’s current view preservation ordinance, which he said, now has...
View ArticleNew Rules Clear a Path to Better Views
The City Council unanimously passed a view ordinance last week, 15 months after then Mayor Kelly Boyd selected a committee to devise a law enforceable by city code. Despite the committee’s efforts to...
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